Russell Brand’s ex Jordan Martin claims he made her brush her teeth until her gums bled

Russell Brand’s ex-girlfriend Jordan Martin has made a disturbing allegation about their relationship, claiming he forced her to brush her teeth so aggressively that they bled.

Martin is one of several former partners and friends speaking out in Netflix’s new documentary Russell Brand: Open Secret, which explores allegations of abuse and controlling behaviour by the comedian.

The documentary arrives just four days after Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others between 2004 and 2009. 

The women making allegations in the Netflix documentary were not among the complainants in his criminal trial. One of those speaking out in Open Secret is Jordan Martin, who started dating Brand in 2007. 

At the time, she was 26 and had recently split up with her husband. When Brand texted her to meet up, she thought “why not” and that it would be a “bit of fun”. 

Early on in the relationship, Brand was cast in the 2008 romcom Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Filming took place in Hawaii, and the comedian had asked Martin to join him “because he wanted someone there to stop him from trying it on with people on set”. 

“But that’s not how it played out,” Martin says in the true crime documentary. “In Hawaii, he didn’t feel comfortable with me sunbathing on the beach or even outside of the bungalow.”

“He would say things like, ‘Oh, you’re dressing like an attention-seeking tart.’ He said, ‘Oh, from now on just wear black.’”

Martin claims the behaviour escalated from there, with Brand accusing her of flirting with one of the crew members despite only speaking to the man on a “couple of occasions” while his wife was present. 

Martin says he later admitted he’d only accused her to see how she’d react. “I just felt like I was in a constant state of confusion,” she says. 

In another incident in Hawaii, Martin accuses Brand of returning from a yoga session and telling her he’d had sex with the instructor. “He said to me, ‘I should be dating someone more famous than you,’” she recalls.

According to Martin, Brand also made comments about wanting her to feel like a stranger to him, which led to the teeth-brushing incident.

“He was reinforcing sex with strangers doesn’t mean anything. They’re objects. He wanted me to taste anonymous. He didn’t want me to be familiar to him,” she says. 

“And so he was asking me to brush my teeth, but it was just never enough. And so he’s standing over me, and I’m brushing and brushing, and then I’m seeing my teeth bleeding.”

Martin becomes visibly emotional as she recounts the experience, pausing before continuing with further allegations about their relationship.

She describes how Brand became increasingly demanding of her time, before recalling an alleged incident at a hotel in the UK.

Martin had stepped outside their room to speak on the phone with someone she knew before dating Brand, who still had a bag belonging to her. When she returned, Brand was waiting for her.

“He asked me who I was on the phone to. I told him, ‘I just need to get my bag back.’ And so he snatched my phone out of my hand and broke it apart into pieces,” she explains. 

Martin says she managed to retrieve her phone and went into another room to gather her thoughts. But what allegedly happened next was even more shocking. 

“He put his hand down the front of my jeans, and he inserted a finger and then walked away,” she says. Martin explains that she never reported the alleged incident or told anyone about it at the time.

“I didn’t report it in any way. I didn’t share it with anybody. I sat with it quietly,” she continues. “I look at myself back then, and I feel sorry for myself. And not in a bad or pitying way, I just feel like… it wasn’t very fair, you know?”

At the end of Russell Brand: Open Secret, text over the screen reads, “Following his conviction and imprisonment, Russell Brand was invited to reply to the claims made in this film through his solicitors but did not respond.”

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